Journal-box guard or closure.



No. 887,787 PATENTED MAY 19, 1m.

, G. F. GODLEY. JOURNAL BOX GUARD OR CLOSURE.

APPLIOATION FILED DEG. 6. 1906.

GEORGE F. GODLEY,OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

JQU'ELNALBOX GUARD 0E CLOSURE.

' Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Llviay 19, 1908.

Application filed December 8, 190$. Serial No. 346.620.

To ZZ whom it may concern: 7

Be it known that i, GEORGE F. GODLEY, a citizen of theUnited Stet-es, and resident of Philadelphia, iii the county of Philadelphia and State of Pennsylvania, have invented scerteiii new and useful Journal-Box Guard or ()losure, of Which the following ise specification. j

The invention relates more particularly to journal boxes having a hinged door or fie for gaining access to the interior thereoi. These doors or flaps are usually hinged to the exterior of the ho and are assembled Without any special regard for fit, thus permitting of egress oi oil end the pehetretiug of dust and The principal object of the present invention is to yrovido'simple, cficient and oomps-retiyely inexpensive means for tightly closing the journal be opening by placin s guerd between the door and outer face of t e ox to i'emedy the above mentioned dised vsritsgeous matures.

To this and other ends hereinafter set forth the invention comprises the improvemcnts to he presently described and. finally claimed. v i

The nature and clisrscteristic features of the invention will he more fully understood from the ioilowing description token in connectiois with the eccompen ing drswings forming pert hereof, end in w ich Figure 1, is s central sectional View of s. journal hozrillustreting the guard in application thereto. Fig. 2, is a front eleystionol VJlGW thereof with the door removed in order to cles-rl illustrate-the guard. Fig. 3, is 21 sections low of the detached guard token upoii the line 33 of Fig. 2. Fig. 4, s front elevationel View of s modified form of guard, and Fig? 5, is a. sectional View taken upon the line 5 5, of Fig. 4.

In the drawing a, is s ourhel box provided with hinged door d. Upon. the top exterior of the box there is is raised or ribbed port-ion b which sets book from and is out of contact with the door'd, sud tends to prevent Water from. geining access to the interior of the box. This ribbed or raised portion extends crosswise of the and st the front thereof, and in the present instance is shown as foaming a continuation of the lug c, to which the door (Z, is hinged. The door d, is oi the spring controlled type and is adapted to close the opening which affords access to the boxinterior. Between the door and outer fsce of the box is e. removubly fitted guard or clo erebly of motel and of light con As shown in Figs. 1 to 3:3, it C(HilPlhcs c. orally rectangular piste the sides of W are marginally channeled as of i1. Betuv the channeled portions the guard s inclined u Wiildi and imvzirdl and term notes in a curved extremity f. The slsd'is provided with an inwerdly extended rih g, at or near its base and arranged sily thereof. in use the channeled poi it, fit over the sides 55, of the jflii'l'lliti no 4 a, as shown in Fig. 2, and the rib g, engages the portion ci and the upper ezrtrcuiityj, of

the guard e, shuts against the upper and liluer surfsce of the journal he); lino. being silient; acts as a spring to hold the hinge o against the part c of the box. Thus the door or cover d, when in normal position securely hoids the guard in piece by pressing against its marginal. edges she not only prevents dust and dirt from finding its Way into the box, but revents the egress of oil. The

'rih g, is metal in connection iuthet should oil he splashed against the it will run down upon the rib end. heshed of? into thebox. g

In the modifiedfo rm. shown in (ifs sud. 5, the guard compiises o rectsuguier piste dished, out as at i, and having flanges 3 .egsinst which the door or cover def the abuts when in closed or normal position.

Having thusdescrihedthe nature sud olejects of my invention What claim new end desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

1. A j ouriiel box having so opening therein, a guard fitted to said openin buying its top edge extending Within suid'hox, and said guard also extending heyoiid the side and bottom edges of said box and overlapping the sides thereof, on d yielding means for hold ing said guard in position.

2. A journal box haying opening therein, s resilient-guard fitted thereto, haying s flange adopted to rest upon the lower Wall or" said opening, the upper edge of said guard. extending Within opening and resting against the upper Wall of the box, and serving as s spring to hold said flange seated upon said lower wall.

3. in combination a journal bozo having an opening in its well, a. hinge l door therefor, there being s. rib upon the exterior of said box extended laterally upon esclr side of said hinge and at or user the front of the box, and a generally rectangular guard removably til fitted to the aforesaid opening and held to with the sides'of the box and a (1001' lunged to place by the said door said guard being insaid lug said ribs bein free from and out of dependent of and in no Wise secured to the contact with the said 001.

door, In testimony whereof I have hereunto 5 4. A journal box having a lug upon the signed my name.

top of and at the front of said box, ribs or GEORGE GODLEY raised portions formed integral With and arranged latera-lly along the lront edge ofthe Witnesses: box the said. ribs being disposed upon oppo- WM. J. JACKSON, 10 site sides of the said lug and extended flush I HAINES D. ALBRIGHT. 

